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Agreeing on common communication does not get harder than this: Breakthrough Message is a global competition to find the one message that represents all of humanity to extragalactic creatures. Unsurprisingly, the prize of 1 million US-dollars is higher than most communication budgets.
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Food holds an increasingly strategic role in countries and their economic development, and communication and public relations are a key instrument in the economy. That’s the message coming from "Food & Expo: the role of communication in food promotion worldwide",...

The "UN Global Compact +15: Business as a Force for Good" was held on June 23-25 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, USA.
The conference, bringing together 500 leaders of companies, investors, academia, civil society and governments, came...

As interest in international public relations increases, knowing the communication laws that affect other countries is all the more important. Nowhere is this more important than China. In April 2015 the Chinese government passed new communications laws that will go into effect in...

The Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA) Registered Consultancy Group (RCG) has released its updated 2015/16 guidelines to ensure student workers employed in the PR sector are managed and paid according to the latest pay rates and industry regulations.
The Registered...

This past May, the PRSSA Public Relations Student Society of America held the Leadership Rally 2015, where delegations from all over the world were invited to participate in a weekend of leadership training, networking and fun. USMP was present at the event with a...

The newly announced winners of the 2015 IABC Gold Quill Awards, as well as winners of other GA members’ awards programs, have the unique opportunity to enter the Global Alliance COMM PRIX Awards 2015/2016 and win again at a global level, proving the difference they made and the...

Are you a mid-career communication professional living outside Switzerland? If yes, you have until January 31, 2016 to apply for the scholarships provided by the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management to the Executive Master of Science in Communications Management...

Anne Gregory, Global Alliance Chair
I am writing this on my last day as Chair of the Global Alliance. Inevitably the temptation is to look back, but I want to look forwards. What point on its journey is our profession at? It’s at a cross-roads. As Alastair...

What can the communications profession be proud of? What value do we deliver to society and our clients? Do we promote the interests that pay the most, are we are gatekeepers for power and skillful to seduce people with messages that are empty of content? Or are we the ones who make the...